Hi Monks I would like to create symbolic links to a list of files within a directory but would like to give the symbolic links a different name to the files that are located in the directory. Here is what I have be playing around with so far. My error occurs around line 21 & 22 with an uninitialized value but cant seem to see what's wrong? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use diagnostics;
use strict;
use Cwd;
my $dir = getcwd;
my $path = "/home/test/mytest";
my %ext_map = ( '.img' => '_trn.img' );
opendir(BIN, $path) || die "cant open folder: $!";
my @array = grep { -d "$path" } readdir BIN;
foreach my $file (@array) {
my $new_ext = $ext_map{$ext} || $ext;
       my $new_filename = $old_filename . '_new' . $new_ext;
       symlink("$path/$old_filename$ext", "$path/$new_filename" ) || d
+ie "cant
create link: $!\n";
}

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In reply to adding symbolic links with new name. by muizelaar

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